Let Me Make You A Martyr, a revenge thriller about a pair of grown-up siblings who plan to kill their abusive father, has been in the works for quite some time. But now it’s finally coming out, and The A.V. Club has an exclusive new trailer for the film. Marilyn Manson plays a hit man hired by the dad to take out his…

My World Of Flopsis Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.

In trying to understand what would make someone commit such a heinous crime as serial murder, you run the risk of minimizing—or, just as bad, fetishizing—those crimes. Hounds Of Love, the debut feature from Australian writer-director Ben Young, avoids these traps by leaving its physical and sexual violence mostly off…

Directed by Doug Liman (Edge Of Tomorrow) from a script off of Hollywood’s famous Black List of un-produced screenplays, The Wall presents America’s protracted war in Iraq in primally simple terms: two U.S. soldiers fighting (and maybe dying) for reasons they can’t articulate, pinned down by an enemy they can’t see or…

Hollywood and East L.A. are only about 12 miles apart, yet the former pays remarkably little attention to the latter, at least in the movies. Lowriders, set primarily in Boyle Heights (with occasional excursions to Elysian Park), aims to be a corrective, focusing on the region’s predominantly Latino population and…

Here’s one to watch, laugh at, and forget. Emily Middleton (Amy Schumer), dumped by her musician boyfriend right before a planned (and non-refundable) vacation for two in Ecuador, opts to bring along her overprotective mother, Linda (Goldie Hawn), only to get herself and her mom kidnapped for ransom on their first…

Through The Wall, it was called back in Israel. Honestly, The Wedding Plan fits it better. What else would you name a romantic comedy about a woman who decides to stick to her wedding date, even after her fiancé up and leaves her? What better title could you find for a film about a bride-to-be planning her nuptials…

Having finished up their shifts on Comedy Central’s Workaholics, Adam Devine, Anders Holm, and Blake Anderson—plus their behind-the-scenes comrade, Kyle Newacheck—are moving on to bigger, more violent things. Last year, we reported that the quartet were teaming up with Seth Rogen for their first film, Game Over, Man!.…

The legendarium of King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table is rich in symbolism, mysticism, and visions, and so any attempt to narrowly rewrite it for modern tastes ends up coming across as a failure of imagination. Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthurwas the last costly wannabe blockbuster to ask what Arthurian legend…

The first trailer for Woodshock, the debut feature from fashion designers Laura and Kate Mulleavy, ends on a question: “What did you do, Theresa?” But the initial look at the film provides few answers, and lots of gorgeous-but-disorienting visuals. For more details we’ll have to go to the official summary, which…

Despite his best efforts, John Waters is a cultural institution. Five decades into his reign as the Pope Of Trash, Waters’ films have screened in museums around the world, received reverential restorations from companies like the Criterion Collection, and even been adapted into Broadway musicals—and one of those, in…

Manifesto may require a cheat sheet. Indeed, press received one during a screening of the new film by German installation artist Julian Rosefeldt, which stars Cate Blanchett in 13 different roles. Actually, “roles” may not be precisely the right term. Blanchett plays archetypes—each existing in a different…

Professional groove reclaimant Diane Lane is at it again. After decamping for Tuscany and falling out and in love with Richard Gere, Lane rejoins her exploration of life’s many paths toward revitalization in Paris Can Wait, which imagines the process as something very much like tourism. Anne (Lane) is in Cannes with…

Sean O’Neal: Clayton, today is a day I’ve been both anticipating and dreading possibly more than my own demise. Today we saw the first trailer for Blade Runner 2049—a sequel to the 1982 film that I’ve spent most of my life obsessing over from the moment I first caught the lesser theatrical version with grudging…

Denis Villeneuve still may not be especially well known to American audiences, but his profile has risen considerably since he was first announced as the replacement for Ridley Scott as the director of Blade Runner 2049. Despite losing the man who first created the world of a Los Angeles plagued by smog, replicants,…

There are very few things about Transformers: The Last Knight that aren’t aggressively bizarre, and this clip from the MTV Movie And TV Awards shows off a lot of them. It has Anthony Hopkins saying “dude,” a human-sized steampunk-looking robot who seems a little broken, a surly robot who turns into a WWI tank and…